LL: Actually, Lihua, when you say that something is a far cry from something else, it means that those two things are totally different.

哦，我明白了，说一件事情是a far cry from另外一件事情，就是说二者大相径庭。 这么说，你也承认，看电影远远比不上去夏威夷好玩喽？

youdao

The old man was sweating now but from something else besides the sun.

老人这时在冒汗，但不光是因为晒了太阳，还有别的原因。

youdao

"And tuktuks are quicker than cyclo, and can take their equipment from the market or something else easier than a cyclo."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The answer is, "It's not like anything," where that doesn't mean there's something that it's like to be a cell phone, but different from being anything else.

答案就是，什么感觉都不像“,那不是说,作为手机真的有一种感觉，只是和作为其他东西的感觉。

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What I don't mean, "Oh, it's like something, but different from everything else."

我不是说，这是某种特别的感觉，和其他感觉都不同“

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Any cap would mean that a euro spent on farming takes away from something else, like regional aid.

ECONOMIST: Federalism

Something, in any case, is always moving, often for no reason other than to steal our attention away from something else that deserves it even less.

FORBES: The Last Temptation of Steve Ditko

Its illuminated buttons and large color LCD display steals attention from just about anything else on your coffee table while its white scroll wheel steals from something else.

ENGADGET: Switched On: The musical mesh for the moneyed